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Twitter iOS app is greater than 2.5M lines of code (twitter.com)
21 points by BryanBeshore 1320 days ago
6 comments
DerekL 1320 days ago
Title is misspelled. Should be than, not then.
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dang 1320 days ago
Thanks - we've thanned it now.
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TimCTRL 1320 days ago
Thats like 2500 files each with 1000 lines of code. Seems pretty reasonable to me for the twitter app, Android or IOS. Languages like JAVA and Objective C are verbose, unlike say Kotlin and Swift.
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Rebelgecko 1320 days ago
At least some of the app is in Swift (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)
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saagarjha 1320 days ago
It’s an about even mix of Swift and Objective-C.
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diebeforei485 1320 days ago
> (based on the printouts of source that I've seen)

Haha.

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lost_tourist 1320 days ago
Given all the libraries and services that ios provides, how? Did they rewrite all those rather than use what apple provides?
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such12 1320 days ago
It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?
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giuliomagnifico 1320 days ago
Other is code to track the users behaviors.
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regular 1320 days ago
Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.
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firemelt 1319 days ago
it self explanatory from simple ruby on rails into scala behemoth lmao
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